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Blake
| | Posted on Monday, March 22, 2010 - 12:14 am: | 
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English is simple for me to understand, but you ever tried speaking Australian? |
Gjwinaus
| | Posted on Monday, March 22, 2010 - 06:30 am: |
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Hey Blake, it not hard to learn, I speak it all the time. |
Mtch
| | Posted on Monday, March 22, 2010 - 06:51 am: |
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try a trip to Wales (hanging off the west side of England in case you didnt know). they have the roads signs in Welsh with English (subtitles?) underneath! |
Mr_grumpy
| | Posted on Monday, March 22, 2010 - 08:37 am: |
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Ah well, Wales is another country, they all speak English (albeit with an even more ridiculous accent than kiwi's) but some of them pretend not to when they realise you're not welsh. It's a cultural pride thing.
BTW, do you know what passes for a leisure centre in Cardiff?
A sheep tied to a lamp post. 
English is such a colourful & flexible language & so much fun to play with, is it any wonder that most of the worlds great comedians have been English speakers. |
Blake
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 24, 2010 - 03:32 pm: |
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Towards the tail end of a 24 hour stint running production tubing on the SEDCO 210 in the Persian Gulf, I'll always remember when one of the tubing crew specialists newly on-board inquired of me "Dyanowerrengoybledeegoypshner?" To which I responded "I'm sorry; I only speak English".
His face turned red as he exclaimed incredulously in a heavy Scottish Brogue accent that "Oiyam speakin' bloody Anglish!"
LOL!
We both then laughed for some time. He was looking for a "shpanner." |
Danger_dave
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 24, 2010 - 03:42 pm: |
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Youse drongos are comin' the raw prawn is youse think 'strine is hard yards. |
Fast1075
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 24, 2010 - 04:16 pm: |
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The now long dead King...placed three barley corns in line and after appointing someone the head of weights and standards to measure those particular barley corns and establish that lenght as the official "inch" standard.
English or metric is fine as long as you don't start using stupid fractions...
And when my grandmother got mad and started yelling in gaelic...nobody could understand except gramps...and when asked what she said...he would always say the same thing..."she said get the hell out of here before I kill ya".
(Message edited by fast1075 on March 24, 2010) |
Blake
| | Posted on Thursday, March 25, 2010 - 02:10 pm: |
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Danger Man, is there a web page translator for that? I'm not sure if we've been admonished, insulted, castigated, or complimented.  |
Pwnzor
| | Posted on Thursday, March 25, 2010 - 02:11 pm: |
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Metric is for the birds!
My car gets 20 furlongs to the hogshead, and that's the way I like it! |
Britchri10
| | Posted on Thursday, March 25, 2010 - 02:28 pm: |
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Danger_dave: I understood you perfectly, old chap! |
Danger_dave
| | Posted on Friday, March 26, 2010 - 12:38 am: |
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Chairs.
But have a bo peep at the Publican. Doesn't know if he's Arthur, Martha or the kid.
A bloke from godsown only wants a chin wag in the native and these Galahs don't get it.
Root me boot. |
Johnnylunchbox
| | Posted on Friday, March 26, 2010 - 06:53 am: |
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I'll fight this metric system until I'm 182.88 centimeters under! |
Sifo
| | Posted on Friday, March 26, 2010 - 01:39 pm: |
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I'll fight this metric system until I'm 182.88 centimeters under!
But at least I can convert that to meters without a calculator. |
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